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 Gunmen broke into Benghazi home on day of general election, killing lawyer, wounding security guard and abducting husband Many Libyans are in shock following the murder of one of Libya 's most prominent human rights activists, killed at her home on the day of country's general election. Salwa Bugaighis was stabbed and shot through the head by gunmen who broke into her house in the eastern city of Benghazi, wounding a security guard and abducting her husband, Essam al-Ghariani, who remains missing. The couple had just returned from voting in Wednesday's election, the attack reminding Libyans of the growing power of extremists in a country wracked by violence. Earlier in the day, she had been speaking by phone from her home on a Libyan TV channel about fighting that was raging near her neighbourhood, sparked when militants attacked army troops that had been deployed polling station. "These are people who want to foil elections," she t